Watchmen Trailer Strikes the Internets Early

Sixteen months ago, the Underwire brought you the first production still from Zack Snyder’s cinematic adaptation of Watchmen, Alan Moore’s legendary graphic novel.

Now we’re one teensie step closer to that geektastic reality with the worldwide (leaked) release of the first trailer for the movie. (Empire Online will officially release the trailer Thursday at 9 p.m. PST.)

Clips posted to YouTube are already being pulled, so you should check this clip (embedded) on Vimeo while there’s time out this high-quality trailer posted on Mahalo.

That is, if you can’t wait a few hours until the Dark Knight showing that you’ve no doubt bought tickets for already. (The Watchmen trailer will roll in front of Christopher Nolan’s intense Batman flick, according to ComingSoon.net)